The Tower House Historic District is located just west of the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area.

A stagecoach and covered wagon road was built from French Gulch to Tower House.

This made Tower House a key place to stop and rest for travelers.

The California-Oregon stage Company also leased stables from Tower for keeping fresh horses ready for the stagecoach use.

The Tower House Historic District is administered by the National Park Service.

The Tower House Historic District is on the outside southwestern edge of the Interlakes Recreation Area.

Hearing about the Gold Rush out west he sail on the Edward Everett to California in 1949.

Then after building the 21-room, 3-story Tower House Hotel he had planted a large 1,000 assorted fruit orchards, including apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries, apricots and nectarines.

Tower died in San Francisco 12 November 1865, age 45, of typhoid fever.

He made his money in a gold claim on Clear Creek, tolls Roads he had built, saw mill for lumber supply, and water systems that supplied water to miners and mining towns down stream from Tower House.

[12] His Clear Creek claim was worked for 18-years and produced $80,000 of gold from his Iron Mountain Mine.

[15] Camden made money in investing in the Spring Valley Water Company of Northern California.